Richard Ayoade Quotes

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I could never dream of being cool.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

I've never thought of myself as a good-looking guy, necessarily.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.